The Mad and the Bad
eBook - 2014
An NYRB Classics OriginalWinner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for FictionMichel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose immense fortune has just grown that much greater following the death of his brother in an accident. Peter is his orphaned nephew—a spoiled brat. Julie is in an insane asylum. Thompson is a hired gunman with a serious ulcer. Michel hires Julie to look after Peter. And he hires Thompson to kill them. Julie and Peter escape. Thompson pursues. Bullets fly. Bodies accumulate. The craziness is just getting started. Like Jean-Patrick Manchette’s celebrated Fatale, The Mad and the Bad is a clear-eyed, cold-blooded, pitch-perfect work of creative destruction....
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New York Review Books
- Language
- English
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- Online Access
- Overdrive Resource Page
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
| Adobe EPUB eBook | |
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| File Size | 447 MB |
| ISBN | 9781590177402 |
| Release Date | 7/15/2014 |
| Kindle Book | |
| ASIN | B00HK40LJY |
| Release Date | 7/15/2014 |
| OverDrive Read eBook | |
| ISBN | 9781590177402 |
| Release Date | 7/15/2014 |
